DRY BREAD AND TINKER’S.

Dunstan Times, Issue 390, 8 October 1869, Page 2

DRY BREAD AND TINKER’S.

(FROM a COKTIESFOXDEXT.) Mining news I have been able to collect from the Black s division of tho district is highly satisf ctory, and, from what I can learn of the results of the washings up of the various sluicing claims at Dry bread and Tinker’s, the escort returns for some time to come will bo equal to any other goldfield in the province. The Blue Mountain Company, of six share holders, at. Tinker’s, who washed up a three months’ running during the past week, netted over two hundred ounces of the precious metal. Holmes and party, who are washing up, expect about the same amount.. Thev have already got about one hundred and fifty ounces. The time engaged in running by this party was about ten weeks. Thomson, Reid, and 00. have had a first rate washing, but tbe amount has not yet transpired. Hilton, Dawson, and party are also washing up with very good prospects, and expect this washing to eclipse all m former ones.

At Drybrcad, tlie amounts obtained by Branch and patty, Green bank and patty and by the Dry bread Water-ra-ces Company from their churns did not transpire, but there is no question from the general good humour and conlideut bearing of one and all, that fortune has been smiling upon them. The permanency of the buildings the miners arc erecting, and the numbers of patches of land under cultivation, added to the very substantial and c an for l able hotels, shores and other places of business n the township altogether denote a state of prosperity. It is under contemplation, the bringing in a hu*:e race to carry thirty heads of water from the Manuherikia, should this be accomplished, the district will bo second to none in the Province ; a preliminary survey has been made, from which it is pro red

the race can be made I hear that application is shortly to be made to the Government for the services of a Government surveyor to lay down (he permanent levels after which the initiators ot tho movement will commence operations. Comp aiuts have been very frequent lately, and in my opinion ’ based ou subs tan rial grounds, respecting the conveyance o: the Mails from Blacks, in fact, Dry broad might as well be without a Mail aS with the existing one. Since the duty has been per formed by the Police, the arrangement has been most .unsatisfactory. A memorial to the Post Master (Je neral on the subject is about to be despatched, the which, it is to be hoped will cause an alteration. The weather has been very boisterous kof late, but a decidedly pleasant change we are now experiencing*